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Elements of Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is poetry? | Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world in a musical language. |
| What is prose? | Prose is the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing. |
| What is a line? | A word or row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence. |
| What is a stanza? | A group of lines forming a unit. The stanzas in a poem are separated by a space. |
| What is figure of speech? | A word or expression that is not meant to be read literally. |
| What is a simile? | A figure of speech using a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things. |
| What is a metaphor? | Compares seemingly unlike things, but does not use like or as. |
| What is personification? | Attributes human like characteristics to an animal, object, or idea. |
| What is alliteration? | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. |
| What is assonance? | The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry |
| What is onomatopoeia? | The use of a word or phrase, such as “hiss” or “buzz” that imitates the sound of what it describes |
| What is rhyme? | The repetition of the same stressed vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in 2 or more words. |
| What is internal rhyme? | occurs at the end of lines. |
| What is end rhyme? | occurs at the end of lines |
| What is rhyme scheme? | The pattern of end rhymes that may be designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme |
| What is rhythm? | The pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. |
| What is meter? | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables which sets the overall rhythm of certain poems. |
| What is connotation? | The emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word |
| What is denotation? | The strict dictionary meaning of a word |
| is the choice of words by an author or poet | Diction |
| The feeling or atmosphere that a poet creates | Mood |
| A reflection of the poet’s attitude toward the subject of a poem. It can be serious, sarcastic, humorous, etc. | Tone |
| Lyric poetry is poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts and feelings. | Lyric Poetry |
| Narrative poetry is verse that tells a story. | Narrative Poetry |
| An ode is a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter. | Ode |
| A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes | Sonnet |
| Traditionally written in response to the death of a person or group. | Elegy |
| Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement. | Free Verse |
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